Alexander not hopeful Medicaid money will be restored

8:24 PM,
Aug. 6, 2012

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U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander wrote the legislation in the 1990s that transferred the former E.A. Conway Medical Center to the LSU Health Sciences Center when he was state legislator, so he knows the impact of the planned $6.2 million cuts there.

Alexander, R-Quitman, said he was distressed when Congress reduced its Medicaid reimbursement to Louisiana earlier this summer by hundreds of millions of dollars.

"We're not happy that Congress took the extra money from Louisiana," Alexander told The News-Star's Editorial Board Monday. ...